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Re: The manufacture of capacitors
Re: Oil dielectric capacitors
Why not go the whole way and eliminate the solid dielectric
material between the plates? I have an article in an old (circa
1921) QST describing an 0.01 mfd, 30 kV capacitor using only oil
as the dielectric. Quite a construction job to get the plates
flat enough to avoid excessive average spacing, but genuinelyh
genuinely indestructable!!!!!! By the way, this one worked at
the "special" wavelength of 350 meters, or about 857 kHz, so the
inductance must have been pretty small.
Why doesn't some get ambitious? Or, more likely, will
someone who HAS been ambitious describe his results.
Ed Phillips